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Ah yeah I just remembered about a part time job one of my friends told me. She is working as an waitress at events. Now I'm thinking about also trying it out. I think it's a hard job but I also can imagine it's pretty cool on some of these events.. last time she was also on the Fashion Week for example. Would be a challenge, but an adventure for me.. + I HAVE TO socialize..

Computer science.. I guess that's one of the reasons, that I met so many Gamers

So I could tell my whole experiences with games etc. but that would be a looong story and I'm not sure how important it is at this moment. I just checked my play time in Steam and it says "5.2 h in the last 2 weeks". I'm fine with that. It's somehow a motivation to see how the time is sinking when you don't play games for some days. In comparison to the past and my gaming habits, I'd say I do really well. I've got my priorities now. Gaming isn't such a big problem anymore. But I start thinking about how I could socialize more and why I didn't socialize that much before. Often I'm very lazy. I come home from University, I eat something, relax and then do my homework. I often feel just powerless. Maybe it's because I don't drink enough, idk. I might go to a doctor. Today I talked to another girl from my university that plays games too. She told me, that she is also doing a break till the exams are done. That surprised me - in a good way Some hours later one of my friends (who also plays from time to time) asked me, if I will try out Overwatch with her. My answer was a bit vague. On one hand I was happy, that she asked me and then I realized, that I'm not even that interested in this game and I don't know, if I want to spend time on it, but don't wanted do disappoint her. Never played anything with her before. It was a weird feeling, but I couldn't take that suggestion really serious anyway.

Oh yeah I've got a friend from I know since and she is also interested in painting/does it in her free time Thanks for your kind answers !

Yeah true.. some doesn't agree but they accept my choice. Thats already good Maybe someday they will understand me I'm definitely looking forward to read the experiences of the other users here as well

Thanks you both Yeah I already talked with some of these online friends about my thoughts. Some of them don't really understand me. They say, that gaming is a hobby like many others and yeah thats true. But it bothered me, that you often don't really achieve something. Like.. something that you can look at in the future and show others or be creative in a way that someone never has been before. It just feels like gaming distracts you from discovering your true talents. Not in all cases of course, but in my situation

First of all I want to say, that I may never completely quit games. But I want cut it down to a Minimum. And I don't want to play specific types of games anymore. Hi, my name is Ricarda, I'm 19 years old and atm I'm mostly busy with my course of studies (Computer Science). And it is already a year ago, that I wanted to stop gaming. And I did really well, played no games for months, or at least not the games I want to play anymore. My main motivation at this point was, that (yeah that might sound weird considering, that I'm sharing my experiences with YOU right now) I don't want to get to know new people like the way I did before. You know.. online friends that you are likely to never ever see and will never be there to do something in real life with you. I started my course of studies and met new, really great people. But in January 2016 I started a new MMO, I played it for around 2-3 months which isn't really Long, but because of this game I didn't learned enough for my exams etc. I really had problems. That shocked me, also because I again met new People online (and there was especially sometimes the struggle of meeting a nice guy that you are going to like too much - if you know what I mean). So again I deleted the game and since this semester I really played less games, but had contact with old online friend AGAIN. And one of them often asked me if I want to play a game with him etc. . But I always said, that my course of studies is most important to me and I don't have time. But I'm still chatting with these 2 friends. And so some days ago I told them, that I don't want to do all this. No more online friends, that are never there for me. I want to invest my time in real friends. So games aren't the real problem for me, but the people you get to know there. And thats why I wanted/want to quit - at least MMOs. The other reason I want to play less games (as I already do) is, that I want to do something more productive. Painting a Picture that I had in my mind for years now, maybe even edit Videos. Spend more time with my real friends And I also really need time to learn for my studies.